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Jakob Bamberger
Jakob "Johnny" Bamberger (11 December 1913 – 1989) was a Sinti Boxing, boxer and later an activist in the Romani people, Romani civil rights movement. Life Jakob Bamberger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, the son of Julius Bamberger, a Horse trading, horse trader and owner of a movie theater that is now a historical building called Das Kleine Kino in Ebersberg. In 1935, the Nazi Germany, Nazis forced the family to cease operation of the theater; from 1935 to 1939, Jakob worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, national Rail transport, railway. During Bamberger's boxing career, which began in 1933, he would set foot in the ring over four hundred times. In 1936, he was selected for the Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Olympic boxing team, but was excluded from competition when the team was 1936_Summer_Olympics#Nazi_influence_on_and_use_of_sporting_events, purged of "non-Aryans". On 15 April 1938, he lost the championship match to Nikolaus Obermauer and became German Vice Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinti
The Sinti (also ''Sinta'' or ''Sinte''; masc. sing. ''Sinto''; fem. sing. ''Sintesa'') are a subgroup of Romani people mostly found in Germany and Central Europe that number around 200,000 people. They were traditionally itinerant, but today only a small percentage of Sinti remain unsettled. In earlier times, they frequently lived on the outskirts of communities. The Sinti of Central Europe (mostly Germany) are closely related to the group known as Manouche in France. They speak the Sinti-Manouche variety of Romani, which exhibits strong German influence. The origin of the Sinti people, as with the broader Romani people, lies generally in the Indian subcontinent; while people from the western Indian subcontinent's region of Sindh were mentioned in 1100 by the Arab chronicler Meidani, it is unclear if the Sindhi people are the ancestors of modern-day Sinti, though what is clear is that the Sinti, as with other Romani people, generally originate in the northern Indian subcontine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
